Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

All history is modern history.

Education is a process of cultivating diamonds in a field called the mind.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.

If you don't go within, you go without.